Spheres 1-24
Irish Beach Pebbles and Scottish Highland Pebbles
24 x 24 x 24 cm
This sculpture exists as a meditation on the existential dialectic between fear and security, fragility and strength. Composed of Irish beach and Scottish Highland pebbles—quartz, granite, basalt, and chert—it engages with the materiality of the natural world to evoke the paradox of human existence.
The stones, monumental in their solidity, are bound by a concealed internal structure, a hidden architecture that speaks to the unseen forces underpinning the visible. The deliberate gaps between the pebbles create an interplay of exposure and concealment, inviting the viewer to confront what is obscured and to reflect on the mysterious frameworks—both literal and metaphorical—that sustain us.
In its quiet tension, the work interrogates the precarious balance we inhabit: the desire for permanence amidst impermanence, for strength amidst vulnerability. It posits the idea that security is not the absence of fear, but the equilibrium achieved when both are held in harmony. This is a sculpture of becoming, of the seen and the unseen, of that which is solid yet fleeting.
© Stephanie Fuller (Burns)